Evolutionary urban transportation planning: an exploration

The challenges facing urban transportation planners are considered. Mounting practical concerns are mirrored by more fundamental critiques. Conventional approaches do not adequately account for the irreducible uncertainty of future developments and whether and how an evolutionary approach can help overcome this limit is explored. Two core hypotheses are formulated. The first is that the urban transportation system behaves in an evolutionary fashion. The second hypothesis is that, because of this, urban transportation planning needs to focus on enhancing the resilience and adaptability of the system. Changes in transport and land-use development patterns and policies, and in the broader context of the postwar period in the Amsterdam, Netherlands, region, are analysed in order to illustrate the two core hypotheses.

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• Authors:
  • BERTOLINI, L
• Publication Date: 2007-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 1998-2019
• Serial:
  • ENVIRON & PLANN A
  • Volume: 39
  • Issue Number: 8
  • ISSN: 0308-518X

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Development; Land use; Planning; Policy; Transportation; Urban areas; Urban development
• Geographic Terms: Netherlands
• ITRD Terms: 9013: Development; 356: Land use; 8078: Netherlands; 143: Planning; 173: Policy; 1155: Transport; 313: Urban area; 374: Urban development
• Subject Areas: Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01076222
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Sep 18 2007 10:15AM